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The Why Files traces the Emerald Tablet, a short text behind the old dream of making gold and living without end. The hosts, mixing lecture and jokes, say Arabic books carried it to medieval alchemists, and that Isaac Newton gave his last decades to it. Their Atlantis story then makes Thoth a man, not an Egyptian god, taught by the Children of Light and sent out after a flood they place near thirteen thousand years ago, carrying a green tablet of cosmic secrets into Egypt. A separate work, The Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean, is pinned on Maurice Doreal, identified as Claude Doggins, whose pages they compare with Lovecraft. The 2011 Book of Aquarius is treated as a believer’s plain account naming urine as its one ingredient, tied to Hennig Brand, who boiled the same substance in the sixteen hundreds and found phosphorus. The channel holds the old tablet to be historical, the Atlantis books a founder’s pitch, and the website a hope, not a proof.
Key points
- The episode starts from the alchemical stone and from Newton’s long study of the Emerald Tablet.
- Its Atlantis story makes Thoth a mortal teacher who brings a green tablet to Egypt after a great flood.
- Hermes Trismegistus and later esoteric circles are presented as heirs of that short text.
- The hosts date the oldest real copy to an Arabic version about twelve centuries old and say the original object is lost.
- Maurice Doreal’s Atlantean tablets are traced to Claude Doggins and compared with fiction he did not write.
- The Book of Aquarius is called a believer’s plain recipe, linked to Hennig Brand’s accidental discovery of phosphorus.
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Newton spent the last 30 years of his life obsessed with the Philosopher's Stone
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Newton’s alchemy is the historical hook before the Atlantis tale begins. Watch at 1:50
Toth wasn't actually a God he wasn't even Egyptian
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In the channel’s story Thoth arrives from somewhere other than Egypt. Watch at 4:17
on this Emerald Tablet Toth wrote the secrets of the universe
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The tablet, in that story, carries both cosmos and the key to living on. Watch at 7:22
the one thing is described as the source of all creation
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Doreal’s book is summarized around a single source behind the physical world. Watch at 11:59
passages that match almost word for word passages from the Necronomicon
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The hosts say Doreal’s pages track fiction, including Lovecraft. Watch at 21:32
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